Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Olive Anne Mellor, a good-looking, 22-year-old Kansas farm girl, took a job as secretary to Planemaker Walter Beech, who had a precarious foothold in the aircraft business. Olive was quickly promoted to receptionist, bill collector and paymaster. In 1930 she married the boss. She helped him form Beech Aircraft and helped nurse their plane-manufacturing company along. Thus, when Walter Beech died last month, there was no trouble finding someone to fill his job. Last week O. A. Beech was elected president and chief executive officer of Beech Aircraft Corp...
...hundreds of itchy victims trooped into the nine treatment centers set up by the city's brisk, go-getting health officer, Dr. Joseph Gimby. Each child's head was examined under a special ultraviolet lamp which makes infected areas show up fluorescent. Where the fungus* had a foothold, the patches were marked and, down the line, were clipped. Many boys and a few girls were completely shaved...
...only to food, but he apparently considered it politically expedient to extend the measure over the whole field of amenities available to Communist party members. It all went to show how rapidly a vice such as egalitarianism could eat into an otherwise uncorrupted Communist society once it got a foothold...
...home: while the U.S. labors on the dam that contains Communism in Europe, the Red tide has risen mightily in Asia and now threatens to engulf half the world's people. In all Asia, tiny, beaten Japan is the one place where the U.S. still has a firm foothold, where it still has a chance to redeem the West's sorry record of failure and confusion in the East...
...strategy had to be shaped between the determination not to be sucked out of position and the determination to keep a foothold in Korea. These two factors dictated a three-phase...